Fallacies of Teenage Gender Transition
about teens who desire to transition
On Youth Transition
by Ophelia Everfall
Puberty blockers are not a healthy thing for the body. That science needs to be accepted. It’s not the most completed finding. The reason is because people don’t want to know. That data is clearly pointing in a direction. Those drugs mess bodies up. People need full-bore hormones as teenagers.
If you just had a denial trigger in your lower left. That’s what that was.
Bodies speak to heart intelligence which plays mirror for the mind.
Kids make mistakes. Our culture leads teenagers towards trying identities that don’t fit. It’s what teenagers do. We need to protect our children from altering their bodies with hormones in teenage years if they might regret.
I believe education is important. Awareness towards the existence of transgender people is crucial for those kids already that way.
Sitting in a movie theater, at seven years old, watching Beethoven’s 2nd, I heard my heart sing its loudest song for the first time.
I didn’t know I had been abused. I didn’t know that at least one of my parents was an inappropriate toucher. I didn’t realize it misconfigured me by spirit of personality from a core level. Layers over-top what I am in my genetics are not going anywhere.
I’m an abused male who has been made what I am. Womanhood, my trans version it, is the best gift I’ve ever given myself. The hormones genuinely make me feel cozy in my body and psyche. I couldn’t go back. I wouldn’t make it if I was detransitioned.
Informed consent saved my adult life. I would have never gone through clinical situations with endocrinologists and psychiatrists to get their permission to be who I am. Still, informed consent is not enough. It’s not even enough for adults.
We need guided and informed consent. It should be guided by trans folks. There are people like me who wouldn’t push a child, nor pull them, to be anything but what they are, regardless if that was by purely genetic outcome or traumatic conditioning.
It shouldn’t be people without a single foot in the reality of transness who make those programs of understanding and guiding towards consent. People like me can make folks understand the cost.
In my opinion, teenagers who have known themselves since young, who never waiver, and confirm it through living their preferred gender in childhood’s androgyny, should be given the chance to use hormone medication when puberty really hits. It should always be a trial.
It can’t be a fad. It can’t be made fun. It needs to be about medicine helping people. It cannot be a cultural trend. It is not right to lead kids away from their natural conditioning.
I’m not saying every trans person is abused backwards in the darkened and unremembered times of their earliest years. But that definitely happens. I was poked at. That’s all I can remember and it’s not even a real memory. It is in my body. I confirmed it in responses of my parents.
They never believed me when I transitioned. They knew they’d made me.
That’s not everybody who is trans. I’m not devaluating gender identities which sway from the binary norm. Hormone medication is needed for people like me to be right with our traumatized psyche. People who have true gender dysmorphia need to be allowed alternative hormones. Kids shouldn’t be swayed to think it’s just a cool idea.
You don’t have to transition to be trans. Trans medicalism is broken by psychology teaching of blatant insanity. They wear their dysmorphia as a burden and some crown. They don’t accept themselves and project that in every direction.
There is a nuance to speak on: kids repress truth.
Children are made to lie when it is known they can’t tell their parents the honest truth. I did that.
If someone like me, knowing themself since seven years old, chose to unrepress themself, and came to owning that bravery in their teenage years, because of the horrors facing puberty, they’d be confused alongside fad-ridden peers influenced by how cool it all seemed.
Those children like me are who we need to save first. They are the worst suicides of the modern seeking of a better way to support trans people.
To be denied outright, for that teenager, like I would have been, while striking out for freedom slain, is a deadly thing.
That process should be carefully overseen in brutal remaking. While teenage years are the worst time we could allow a youth to make some permeant choice in altering their body, it’s an equally horrifying spot to deny a child seeking help they really need which is available. They know it. Their hearts are calling for it.
Truly gender dysmorphic children who come out in their teens need a path. It would save lives to preventing waiting through the torture of their puberty into adulthood.
Puberty was torture for me. Nobody understood. Everyone spoke in platitudes about that being how puberty went for everyone. It was torture. I grew to live through an adulthood of tortured feelings in my body fought wholesale through every moment.
My entire personality, as Garett Garrido, was of denial. Firstly, about how my heart sang for the concept of living as a woman. Secondly, for how I lived every second after the beginnings of puberty hating everything, wanting to not be alive in my deepest places of bodily held trauma.
Even if it took years. Having that path to walk towards who they wanted to be, when their body screams for it, when medicine allows it, would save today’s teenagers who are like me from suicide.
More science should be completed about the truth of trans identities existence in biology. I’m not sure it’s one or the other. There are abused people like me who were made into a male woman of spirit and personality. I think there are almost certainly people who are born on a path for dysmorphia without trauma, and perhaps from genetic remembrance of ancestry. We need to respect all possibilities until science proves it one way or another.
We should try our hardest to prevent confused, damaged adults from making mistakes. It cannot be at the cost of people like me. We can’t stop people from lying their way through things. It is about education. It is about planting the correct seeds for the future.
Kids are sacred. Teenagers mess up. Adults do too. We’re all children at heart. We can do better for everyone by being honest about the nuances of trans youth which we do not understand scientifically.
De-transitioning people is inhumane, even if by processes re-fortified away from the informed consent model.
If that happened to me, my stress would not allow me to double back and get those qualifications. Even though I could. I never got the proof. I never wanted to undergo that insult from emplacements of hierarchical authority in the civilization which allowed an abused kid to hold it all herself.
Allowing confused teenagers to transition is inhumane and abhorrent for how we are meant to do our very best for children more than anything.
Let’s do better.
